Love With Mabel example essay topic

Characters Like people in real life, fictional characters reveal themselves by how they look, what they say and how they say it, what they do, as well as how they feel. This two characters, George and Jack, reveal themselves, in most of the story, by how they feel. In spite of being different, both men have something in common: how and what they feel towards their own Mabel. George escapes from Mabel because he doesn't want to marry her. In a similar way, Jack refuses to accept he is in love with Mabel. But both men end (up) marrying their own Mabel.

They feel the same under some circumstances: both feel afraid and nervous. When George, is about to meet Mabel, after seven years, he realizes he is not prepared to marry her: "Then, suddenly, without warning, he was afraid. He had not seen Mabel for seven years... He felt a terrible sinking in his stomach, and his knees began to shake. He couldn't do it". And Jack feels that way when he is in the house with Mabel: "He was amazed, bewildered and afraid."He was afraid, even a little horrified".

What causes them to behave as they do? George behaves in such a cowardly way, escaping from her, because he had not seen Mabel for seven years and that causes him fear and insecurity. That's why he avoids answering every letter she sends to him, because of the fact that he feels pressured by Mabel, and because of that he escapes from her. Jack escapes from Mabel, but in a different way. He escapes from his own feelings towards Mabel.

He has never fallen in love, and that feeling fills him with nervousness and fear: "He had no intention of loving her; his whole will was against his yielding. It was horrible". Although, at first, George and Jack have a strong resistance to accept they love their own Mabel, both end realizing that they are in love with them. It can be seen, when George is in the club (at the beginning of the story), that he really love his wife: "He's so terribly miserable since his wife went home."It must be very pleasant for her to know that her husband loves her as much as that". At last Jack finally accepts he loves Mabel: "And again, from the pain of his breast, he knew how he loved her. He went and bent to kiss her, gently, passionately, with his heart's painful kiss".

Such is the way he loves her, that he asks her to marry him: "I want you, I want to marry you, we " re going to be married, quickly, quickly - tomorrow if I can". But despite this contradictory feeling, which doesn't allow themselves to express and admit what and how they feel, they finally give vent to their emotions, behaving freely, without any kind of resistance.